On December 15, 1961 approximately 2000 people peacefully marched through downtown Baton Rouge to protest the arrest of 23 Southern University students the day before for picketing restaurants that continued to refuse to serve African Americans. ...

Typical school scene during Fire Prevention Week was the fire drill, conducted in every school in the Parish. Here, girls from St. Joseph's Academy evacuate the school in a rapid and orderly fashion. Original located in the 1955 Fire Week...